Decision Workspace
windows-drives vs gptman vs winsafe
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
45
windows-drives
growingv0.5.0
Safe Win32 API wrappers for access to raw binary data on physical drives
63
gptman
stablev3.0.0
Pure Rust library to read and modify GUID partition tables
63
winsafe
growingv0.0.27
Windows API and GUI in safe, idiomatic Rust.
Core Metrics
| windows-drives | gptman | winsafe | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 45 | 63 | 63 |
| Total Downloads | 17.3K | 741.3K | 31.4M |
| 30d Downloads | 151 | 21.5K | 3.0M |
| Dependents | 8 | 39 | 52 |
| Releases | 10 | 32 | 27 |
| Last Updated | 1850d ago | 67d ago | 85d ago |
| Age | 5y 3m | 7y 2m | 6y 5m |
Health Breakdown
windows-drives
Maintenance
4
Quality
15
Community
9
Popularity
5
Documentation
12
gptman
Maintenance
14
Quality
16
Community
11
Popularity
7
Documentation
15
winsafe
Maintenance
14
Quality
18
Community
11
Popularity
8
Documentation
12
Technical Details
| windows-drives | gptman | winsafe | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.5.0 | 3.0.0 | 0.0.27 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✗ No |
| License | MIT | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Dependencies | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Crate Size | 6KB | 26KB | 596KB |
| Features | 0 | 1 | 20 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 12.5% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2018 | 2021 | 2024 |
| MSRV | — | 1.85 | 1.87 |
| Owners | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •gptman leads with a health score of 63/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •winsafe has the most downloads (31.4M), suggesting wider adoption.
- •⚠ windows-drives has not been updated in over a year.
- •windows-drives, winsafe are pre-1.0 — API may change.